Sindri Magnússon, PhD

Bio:  Sindri Magnússon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from University of Iceland, Reykjavík Iceland, in 2011, the Masters degree in Applied Mathematics (Optimization and Systems Theory) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, in 2013, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the same institution, in 2017. He was a postdoctoral researcher 2018-2019 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and a visiting PhD student at Harvard University for 9 months in 2015 and 2016. His research interests include distributed optimization, machine learning and data-driven decision-making both theory and applications in complex networks. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has received a number of awards, including the best student paper award (as a supervisor) at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) and the Swedish Research Council (VR) starting grant within natural and engineering sciences.

PhD Students

• Alireza Heshmati

• Ali Beikmohammadi 

• Shubham Vaishnav 

• Mohsen Amiri 

• Guilherme Dinis Junior 

• Zahra Kharazian (co-supervisor)

• Sayeh Sobhani (co-supervisor)

• Alfreds Lapkovskis (co-supervisor)

• Lida Huang (graduated 2024, co-supervisor, now Nordea)